Michael Sadler (Writer)

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date1970-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Release Date1967-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Release Date1969-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Second City Firsts

A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.

Release Date1973-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

A Year in Provence

Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.

Release Date1993-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count6

Fanny by Gaslight

Fanny by Gaslight is a four-part British television miniseries adapted by Anthony Steven from Michael Sadler's 1940 novel of the same mame, directed by Peter Jefferies, and produced by Joe Waters. It initially broadcast from 24 September to 15 October 1981 on BBC One. Victorian orphan Fanny Hooper navigates hardship and scandal, eventually discovering her true parentage and finding love amidst the city's demi-monde.

Release Date1981-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Sexual Confessions

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?

Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.

Release Date1974-03-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Cork and Bottle

A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.

Release Date1977-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1